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departure of his troops and receive the victorioussurvivors. This was his daily duty, and it rejoicedhim.

Togdekin, the Atabec or Moslem Governor ofDamascus, having in those violent dissensions inSyria, partaken in various cruel treasons, murders,and robberies, so that the Assassins (or Battenians,as some call them) slew the noted robber Kalaf, aMahometan, and the Damascan menacing Kalaf senemies, became himself exposed to the Old Man’semissaries; 1 wherefore it is said that the unworthyTogdekin began to do everything he could, to in-sinuate himself into the Mountaineer’s good graces.So violent and most unnatural struggles ensued, inone of which King Baldwin, with the late old Ray-mond’s son Bertrand, took Tripoli and Beyrout, andattacked Sidon; 2 which last town paid a sum ofmoney to Baldwin, and he raised the siege and re-turned to Jerusalem. Joscelin, Lord of Tel-bacheron the Euphrates, had declared war against Aleppoabout 1110 (according to Kemaleddin) with avariety of success; but upon the whole, the Frankswere evidently the gainers, and even forced theMoslems to retire from the siege of Edessa; besides,thoes of Sidon resolved to remove to Damascus,

1 Ibn Mayassar : 21.—Cod. Arab.

2 Arab. C-broa., 24.